United States naval architects or ship designers introduced the faster and larger sailing frigates and sloop-of-wars of the early United States Navy which influenced the later merchant ships and clipper ships.

Name - Years served

  • Ships designed

Joshua Humphreys 1794 to 1801

  • Hassan Bashaw, 1797 brig (DANFS)

Josiah Fox 1794 to 1801, 1804 to 1809

  • Constitution and Constellation class frigates, Crescent, , , , and , (schooner), and revenue cutters

William Doughty 1813 to 1837

  • President, 74's, Peacock class, Erie class, and , 74's class, 44's Class, brigs, revenue cutters, and Baltimore Clipper model.

Benjamin Hutton 1803

  • brig , schooners (DANFS) and Skjoldebrand (DANFS), , and

Samuel Humphreys 1813 to 1846

  • , , , class sloops-of-war, . and Levant, Delphine and Porpoise, and , and Morris-class revenue cutters

Francis Grice 1817 to 1859

  • , , and

Henry Eckford 1817 to 1820

  • all the War of 1812 Lake Ontario men-of-war, (DANFS), (DANFS), (DANFS + DANFS), (DANFS), schooner , Mahmoudieh (for the Ottoman Empire), and the class 74s in 1820.

Samuel M. Pook 1841 to 1866

  • (DANFS), and

See also

  • Naval architecture

References

  • Chapelle, Howard I. (1935). The History of American Sailing Ships. ,
  • DANFS Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships